Huttunen, N. (31 Mar. 2020). Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004428249 #OpenAccess #OA #BiblicalStudies #Bible #Christian #Writings #AncientPhilosophy #Ancient #Philosophy #Theology #Christianity #RomanEmpire #Roman #Empire #Religion @philosophy @antiquidons @bookstodon (25)

@Kainoscope_

As you say, all terms are loaded. Dealing with words is often making the least bad choice in context (at least for those of us without legions of adoring fans).

In my observation (as an outsider), #BiblicalStudies scholars (outside of conservative Christian schools) seem to have landed on #HebrewBible due to the concerns you highlight, but typically keep New Testament. That's one solution, as long as we remember what gets lost (e.g. Aramaic, textual criticism). 🙂

Progressive #Christians , what do you make of the doctrine of total depravity?

I am trying to understand how a savior is needed if that concept isn’t somehow an accurate interpretation.

#Religion #ReligiousTrauma #BiblicalStudies #Bible #Christianity #Atheist #Agnostic #ProgressiveChristianity #Theology #Doctrine

I really wish it was easier to get the meta data of the Bible. Like I want to be able to quickly determine the most common words in Hebrew or Greek in a book. But it doesn't seem as doable in the original languages as it is in English.

It's hard to make a list of words to learn/memorize without this info.

#BiblicalStudies #BiblicalHebrew #BiblicalGreek

@WordyAnchorite @egalandbooks

I was going to say the same!

Also you can follow hashtags. That how I find some of the people I follow. They're just out there speaking into hashtags like #Christian #Christianity #Theology #BiblicalStudies #Theologidon

Looking through an archive* today and found a history of #YHWH and #Canaanite deities that dates to 101 CE!**

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* ) The archive was my literature notes.
**) Upon further (unfunded) research, the dating of the text turned out to be a scribal error.

#ReligiousStudies #BiblicalStudies

I’ve updated my big list of NIV mistranslations with several new entries—most provided by readers of my blog, but a few discovered by myself as well.

This list is by far the most popular thing I’ve ever created, with 136,000 views to date, so check it out.

https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/articles-and-resources/deliberate-mistranslation-in-the-new-international-version-niv/

#Bible #NIVbible #Christianity #inerrancy #creationism #BiblicalStudies #translation #religion #ChristianPublishing

What does it mean when the Bible says Goliath's spear had a shaft like a weaver's beam? Lachlan and I discuss ancient looms and an intriguing possibility about the warrior Elhanan in a chat on Lachlan's channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW2CTlnsauU

#Bible #Christianity #Judaism #mythology #religion #BiblicalStudies #deconstruction #exvangelical #inerrancy #textiles

New article: Israelite Divination and the Mysterious Teraphim

I briefly address the passages in the Bible that mention teraphim and discuss what these sacred objects were before moving on to the topic of Israelite divination.

https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2023/05/04/israelite-divination-and-the-mysterious-teraphim/

#Bible #Christianity #AncientIsrael #history #religion #divination #necromancy #deconstruction #exvangelical #HigherCriticism #BiblicalStudies #BibleStudy #Judaism

I have a new video up about the Bible's only ghost story — King Saul's encounter with the ghost of Samuel at Endor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdHqTAiuLs

#Bible #Christianity #Judaism #deconstruction #BiblicalStudies #mythology

@andybaio

🎂🥳 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🎉 🎂

(From #TheBible, 1 John Chapter 4, copied for a #theological debate on another platform with a #ChristianNationalist.)

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There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

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We love because he first loved us.

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If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

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And he has given us this command: Whoever loves #God must also love his brother.

#ChristianNationalism #Evangelicals #Evangelical #ProgressiveChristianity #Christianity #GodIsLove #StopHate #BiblicalStudies #BibleStudy #Bible

Divine violence in the Old Testament is one of my favorite topics to read about. #BiblicalStudies #Theology

I wrote out a summary of John Milbank’s chapter on the historicity of Jesus’ trial narrative in the gospels. I had not encountered his line of thinking before, so I tried to parse it out here.

https://nathaniel-metz.writeas.com/john-milbank-on-the-historicity-of-jesus-trial-narrative

#theology #biblicalstudies #radicalorthodoxy #jesus #bible #newtestament
@religion
@theologidons @theology

Reading this for #HolyWeek #Theology #BiblicalStudies

As I’ve studied Mark 15 this week I’ve found it intriguing that Mark uses three titles for Jesus: king (6 times), Christ (v. 32) and Son (v. 39). These are the same three titles used in Psalm 2 of YHWH’s messiah. It adds, I think, an extra layer to the already thick references that show us this man dying on the cross is nothing less than the messiah, the Son of God.

#bible #biblicaltheology #biblicalstudies #OTinNT

If you're new to Mastodon *or if you're not!) and you work in, or are interested in #BiblicalStudies and want to connect with others, here are four suggestions actions for you:

1. Add yourself to the Biblical Studies Herd list: https://bit.ly/BiblicalStudiesHerdForm

2. Look at the list to see who to follow: https://bit.ly/BiblicalStudiesHerdList

3. Follow the new @biblicalstudies group to receive tagged posts

4. Whenever you toot about #biblicalstudies tag @biblicalstudies so the group receives the posts & tag #BiblicalStudies too (if you use camel case – capital B & S – it helps screen readers turn them into speech for those with visual difficulties).

Please boost!

New article by Cedric E. W. Vine (Associate Professor of New Testament, Andrews University): EXODUS ALLUSIONS IN THE MIDSECTION OF THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW.
He argues that multiple exodus allusions in the midsection of Matthew’s Gospel reveal an Evangelist who either anticipated the possible need for withdrawal from hostile host communities or affirmed an ongoing separation process.
https://tyndalebulletin.org/article/68303-exodus-allusions-in-the-midsection-of-the-gospel-of-matthew
#Bible #NewTestament #Gospels #Matthew #MatthewsGospel #Exodus #BiblicalStudies @biblicalstudies

For my personal study and devotion, I’ve been writing little devotionals about God’s attributes. So far I’ve written one for each of these:

Goodness
Wisdom
Sovereignty
Faithfulness
Grace

Which one should I do next? What’s your favorite attribute of God?

#Christianity #God #Theology #BiblicalStudies #Theologidon

I was listening to a presentation on animal sacrifice in the Bible and the speaker said he wanted to go to Israel and find all the bones from the millions of animals sacrificed because they haven’t been found yet.

This seemed odd to me. Surely a society that slaughters animals wouldn’t keep the bones around, they’d grind them for agricultural use or dispose of them. Looking into it, animals fully decompose in 20 years. So there are no missing bone piles in Israel to find. #BiblicalStudies

I recently had a conversation with an Australian seminary student and YouTuber about the original legend of Goliath in which the famous giant was slain not by David, but by a warrior named Elhanan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe01GLcZd98

#Bible #Christianity #Judaism #deconstruction #exvangelical #BiblicalStudies #history #mythology